Category Archives: London Assembly

Ten top tips to help do your bit during the covid-19 emergency

Posted on March 28, 2020 by

After more than a week of the coronavirus lockdown, we’ve probably all got more time on our (very well-washed) hands than we know what to do with. Here, Croydon teacher and volunteer ROWENNA DAVIS (pictured left) offers some suggestions about … Continue reading →

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‘A time to prepare, not panic’ MP Jones says over coronavirus

Posted on March 13, 2020 by

Croydon, London and much of the country was going into a self-imposed lockdown today, as sports events, concerts and other public gatherings, large and small, were being postponed or called off to try to avoid the spread of coronavirus. In … Continue reading →

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Labour council threatens £1m of cuts over mayor referendum

Posted on March 4, 2020 by

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, watched Monday night’s full council meeting so you didn’t have to Croydon Council will spend £1million on staging, and contestng, a referendum over whether the borough should have a mayor directly elected by all Croydon’s … Continue reading →

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Court ruling against airport expansion is problem for Newman

Posted on February 27, 2020 by

This morning’s Court of Appeal ruling that a third runway at Heathrow is unlawful could put Croydon’s council leader Tony Newman’s bollocks in a vice. For not only has the ruling managed to coalesce opposition, legally and environmentally, against airport … Continue reading →

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It’s time to vote for someone who ‘gets’ the climate emergency

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Worried about flooding locally, and climate change globally? PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured right, a Green Party candidate, says that these issues should be a central in the London Assembly elections Families and businesses are yet again being left to … Continue reading →

Posted in 2020 London elections, Caroline Russell, Croydon Greens, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Peter Underwood, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Davis will fight on – ‘You don’t need to be elected to do that’

Posted on February 23, 2020 by

Rowenna Davis, the candidate who missed out by 25 votes to stand for Labour in Croydon and Sutton in May’s London Assembly elections, says she will continue with her campaigning activism “to make a difference to people in… our capital”. … Continue reading →

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Cummings wins Labour’s Assembly selection race by 25 votes

Posted on February 21, 2020 by

WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on a close-run thing Patsy Cummings, the councillor for South Norwood, will be Labour’s candidate in Croydon and Sutton for the London Assembly elections in May after winning a ballot of party members in the two … Continue reading →

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